An upcoming California law requires operating system providers to enforce basic mandatory age verification

https://lemmy.ca/post/61071144

An upcoming California law requires operating system providers to enforce basic mandatory age verification - Lemmy.ca

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/61071136 [https://lemmy.ca/post/61071136] > Apparently this will include Linux…

We now live in an age where software controls the user, instead of the other way around. It is now an instrument of surveillance and control, instead of liberation.

Age verification is a violation of the user’s rights of the highest order, and using “protecting children” as a justification is a disgusting and egregious hypocrisy.

This is the end of digital privacy.

When did you ever actually believe users controlled software again?
Before Microsoft and Windows in the 80’s when they pushed for the way all software is licensed out now. There’s a pretty clear history on the matter you could look up.
So when it was the wild wild west of computer vending and distro sharing? And IBM monopolized the market?